Ina Ganguli is a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Director of the UMass Computational Social Science Institute (CSSI). Her primary research areas are labor economics and the economics of science and innovation. Her recent research has focused on the migration of high-skilled workers, gender disparities in the labor market, and the formation of scientific collaborations. She is currently working on projects understanding the impacts of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian science and innovation.
She holds a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University, a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University. She was a Fulbright scholar in Ukraine in 2004 and has served as a U.S. Embassy Policy Specialist Fellow in Russia, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. In 2018, she received the Russian National Prize in Applied Economics, awarded biennially to recognize published research on the Russian economy. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), an Affiliated Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), and a Faculty Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Laboratory for Innovation Science (LISH) at Harvard University.
Some of her recent publications include the following: Ganguli, Ina and Waldinger, Fabian, 2023. “War and Science in Ukraine” in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy, volume 3, National Bureau of Economic Research. Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ina Ganguli and Patrick Gaulé, 2023. “Top Talent, Elite Colleges and Migration: Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology,” Journal of Development Economics, 164. Agarwal, Ruchir, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaulé and Geoff Smith, 2023. “Why U.S. Immigration Matters for the Global Advancement of Science,” Research Policy, 52. Prokopovych, Bogdan and Ina Ganguli, 2020. “Social Artrepreneurship in History: Lessons from the Wanderers’ Exhibitions in Imperial Russia,” Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, pp.1-21.